Preparing Students for College, Career, and Citizenship: By integrating the goals of the Common Core State Standards initiative and the goals of civic education, educators can truly provide all students with the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed for success. Whether students’ lives lead them to college or the workforce, they must as future citizens of our nation learn to become effective, responsible and engaged citizens in the 21st century. It is our mission, our civic mission as educators, families, and policymakers to adopt this goal as a moral and civic imperative for the young people we serve and the future of our democracy.
Shifts in ELA/Literacy: This document describes the shifts required of educators if they are to be aligned with the CCSS.
A Guide to Creating Text Dependent Questions for Close Analytic Reading: The Common Core State Standards for reading strongly focus on students gathering evidence, knowledge, and insight from what they read. Indeed, eighty to ninety percent of the Reading Standards in each grade require text dependent analysis; accordingly, aligned curriculum materials should have a similar percentage of text dependent questions.
Exemplar for ELA and Social Studies Close Reading: (Grade 5) The goal of this exemplar is to demonstrate to teachers how students can build the reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language skills they’ve been practicing on a regular basis to understand the concepts and principles of our nation’s founding documents and how they are still important and meaningful in today’s society. By reading the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution (primary source), a summary of the Articles of the Constitution (secondary source), and the Bill of Rights (primary source) as informational text, they will strengthen their content knowledge of the structure, function and powers of the federal government in our American democracy as well as the rights and responsibilities of citizens. By practicing writing, listening and speaking, and language skills, students will deepen and apply their knowledge of democratic principles to be able to impact public policy and achieve the goals of a civil society. (For more detail, click on link above.) Exemplar Template
Teacher Establishes Purpose for Reading
Students Read Text Independently
Students Dialogue about Text
Teacher Conducts Think Aloud to Model Literacy Strategies
Students Re-Read and Paraphrase Text through Dialogue and Writing
Teacher Leads Discussion Using Text Dependent Questions
Preparing Students for College, Career, and Citizenship: By integrating the goals of the Common Core State Standards initiative and
the goals of civic education, educators can truly provide all students with the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed for success. Whether students’
lives lead them to college or the workforce, they must as future citizens of our nation learn to become effective, responsible and engaged citizens in
the 21st century. It is our mission, our civic mission as educators, families, and policymakers to adopt this goal as a moral and civic imperative for the
young people we serve and the future of our democracy.
Shifts in ELA/Literacy: This document describes the shifts required of educators if they are to be aligned with the CCSS.
A Guide to Creating Text Dependent Questions for Close Analytic Reading: The Common Core State Standards for reading strongly focus on students gathering evidence, knowledge, and insight from what they read. Indeed, eighty to ninety percent of the Reading Standards in each grade require text dependent analysis; accordingly, aligned curriculum materials should have a similar percentage of text dependent questions.
Exemplar for ELA and Social Studies Close Reading: (Grade 5) The goal of this exemplar is to demonstrate to teachers how students can build the reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language skills they’ve been practicing on a regular basis to understand the concepts and principles of our nation’s founding documents and how they are still important and meaningful in today’s society. By reading the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution (primary source), a summary of the Articles of the Constitution (secondary source), and the Bill of Rights (primary source) as informational text, they will strengthen their content knowledge of the structure, function and powers of the federal government in our American democracy as well as the rights and responsibilities of citizens. By practicing writing, listening and speaking, and language skills, students will deepen and apply their knowledge of democratic principles to be able to impact public policy and achieve the goals of a civil society. (For more detail, click on link above.)
Exemplar Template
Exemplar for ELA and Social Studies (Grade 1)
Exemplar for High School "Close Reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address" (Draft)
Key Words to Use in Drafting Writing Assignments
Standards Checklist: A helpful checklist designed to help you check off ELA CCSS standards as you plan your units.
Writing Strategies for Social Studies
American Revolution Newspaper Project Template: An example literacy inflused project that focuses on the American Revolution.
ELA Performance Task from the Smarter Balanced Consortium: An example from the Smarter Balanced assessment designed for Grade 10. Topic is Sacagawea- Fact and Fiction.
Text on Sacagawea